Trackpad does not work in Windows 10 - Acer E3 111 C0WA

August 1st at 12:00am

I rushed ahead and upgraded my Acer E11 NetBook to Windows 10. During the upgrade I selected the option to wipe everything out. After the upgrade it wiped out everything (including drivers) and the trackpad stopped working. Getting it working again was a bit less than trivial.

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Steps to get the Touchpad working

  • Plugin an external mouse to make navigating things easier
  • Grab your Acer SNID which is printed on a sticker on the bottom of the netbook
  • Go to the Acer drivers page and enter the SNID for your laptop
  • Pick Windows 8.1 in the version drop down. You'll see this set of drivers
    windows81-drivers.png 
  • Install drivers in this order:
    • GPIO
    • Intel Chipset
      (reboot)
    • Elan Trackpad
    • Synaptics Trackpad
        
  • Pick Windows 10 in the version drop down
    • Install the Windows 10 Synaptics driver